Kansas City does have a few notable names hitting free agency, but doesn’t have many players that will break the bank. Here are the Chiefs’ free agents for 2018:

Unrestricted Free Agents

Restricted Free Agents

Exclusive-Rights Free Agents

DT Bennie Logan

DE David King

OT Isaiah Battle

P Dustin Colquitt

OG Jordan Devey

CB Trevon Hartfield

FB Anthony Sherman

CB Terrance Mitchell

OLB/DE Earl Okine

WR Albert Wilson

OG Donald Hawkins

ILB Terrance Smith

K Cairo Santos

WR Seantavius Jones

OT Bryan Witzmann

RB C.J. Spiller

DT Rakeem Nunez-Roches

CB Keith Baxter

QB Tyler Bray

ILB Ramik Wilson

P Will Monday

TE Gavin Escobar

OLB Justin March

OT Joseph Cheek

OG Michael Person

OT Josh James

DL Montori Hughes

QB Joel Stave

DE Jarvis Jenkins

S Marqueston Huff

CB Phillip Gaines

WR De’Anthony Thomas

OG Zach Fulton

CB Kenneth Acker

CB De’Vante Bausby

DE Cam Thomas

*Info via Spotrac. UFAs are free to sign with any team. RFAs can talk with other teams, but Chiefs have a chance to match any offers they receive from other teams or receive compensation in the form of a draft pick. If offered, ERFAs must sign their one-year deal or sit out the season.

At first glance this looks like a huge list of players set to hit free agency. That’s because the Chiefs currently roster 90 players. If you look closely you’ll realize most of these players won’t even make the team in 2017.

The players I put in bold are the ones I feel are the most important. It’s possible even some of those guys don’t make the team (Gaines, De’Anthony Thomas, Jenkins, Albert Wilson). Even if they make it in 2017, their chances of making it in 2018 could be slim.

Only a handful of these players should be made priority. If guys like Mitchell, Nunez-Roches, March and Ramik Wilson play well, those guys can be kept for cheap by receiving one-year tenders that’ll cost around $2-4 million.

The big UFAs are Logan, Colquitt, Santos and Sherman, while the semi-important ones are Bray, Escobar, and the players I mentioned above as borderline roster cuts. Bray and Escobar should come cheap if they’re worth keeping around. Sherman is on a relatively small contract right now (three years, $7 million) so he could probably be kept for cheap as well.

The big question is whether Logan, Colquitt or Santos will stick around. Logan was much like Dontari Poe in the sense that he’s on a one-year prove it deal. If he shines in 2017, he’ll likely draw lots of interest in free agency.

The Chiefs weren’t willing to pay Poe this year, so it makes you wonder whether they’d want to pay Logan next year. I’d say it’s likely they won’t, but things could change.

Colquitt and Santos are more difficult to gauge. Colquitt is the league’s highest-paid punter right now. Will he be willing to stay in KC on a smaller, discounted deal? If so he may stick around, otherwise the Chiefs could go after younger, cheaper talent. They’ve been testing Will Monday this offseason as a possible replacement.

Santos has been a reliable kicker over the years but could be replaced if he commands too much money. It all depends on how much KC is willing to spend on a kicker. The Chiefs opted to keep Santos over Ryan Succop in 2014 instead of paying the latter, so will they do the same with Santos?

Overall some big decisions will have to be made, but don’t be surprised if the Chiefs move on from a lot of these guys in order to focus on signing others to contract extensions. Guys like QB Alex Smith, DL Allen Bailey, ILB Derrick Johnson, OLB Dee Ford and RB Spencer Ware will be due new contracts in 2019.

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